The James Bond Books by Ian Fleming

James Bond debuted in 1953’s Casino Royale. Created and written by Ian Fleming, the character became a phenomenon during the spy craze of the 1960s.

I saw Thunderball three or four times before I ever saw any of the other films, but we’re not here to talk about Sean Connery and other lead actors over the past 60+ years.

In my teens I went looking for the original novels and found the 1960s Pan editions. The cover graphic design led by Raymond Hawkey amazed me, and the novels themselves had a much-less glamourous and more-intense feel than the films. Fleming used his wartime intelligence experience to inform a character that had been shaped by the Second World War and the Cold War that followed. Bond could get the job done, there was no doubt about that, but he was also human – as much as he might try to push that down at times. That tension made him more than a run-of-the-mill mens’ adventure hero.

Over time the Cold War backdrop would be less important than the evolving mythos of the Bond world. More novels were written after Fleming’s passing, and they became more like support for the films than original works in the vein of Fleming’s writing.

So if you’re curious, here are Fleming’s books. I think you’ll be able to see why they stood out and grew in popularity.

“He handed over the black folder with the red star which stood for Top Secret.”

Casino Royale – new ebook edition in ePUB and Kindle formats.

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